Rocky coast at Otarawairere Bay Sustainable Seas 2020
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Integrating interactive stressors within marine spatial planning using spatial modelling and decision support tools
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This summary details important advances for marine spatial planning and ecosystem-based management (April 2024)

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Utilising ecosystem services to support marine ecosystem management
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This summary provides an overview of how ecosystem services can be used as a tool in marine management and ecosystem-based management (March…

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Financing coastal and marine restorative economies in Aotearoa New Zealand
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This summary gives the main points of a report on opportunities and challenges in building restorative economies in New Zealand from the inv…

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Restorative marine economies: a framework for mobilising ecosystem-level investments
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This summary explains the key concepts of restorative economies and outlines an impact investment framework to guide questions and steps whe…

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Improving the marine management framework to make good decisions on seabed mining
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This summary details managing seabed mining and other marine activities, and recommends improvements to the marine management framework (Feb…

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Revitalising mātauranga Māori in marine management
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Using research for legislation, policy, and planning for healthy seas
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Building a seaweed sector
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Upholding the value of pāua quota
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This research looks at how we can uphold long-term fishery values, the value of commercial quota, and the ecological role that pāua play in …

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Factsheet: Environmental considerations for seaweed aquaculture
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Assessing the environmental effects of seaweed aquaculture in Aotearoa New Zealand (September 2023)

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Managing cumulative effects in the marine environment
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This is a research round-up of our tools, resources and research related to managing cumulative effects in the marine environment (May 2023)

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Understanding cumulative effects from a Te Ao Māori perspective
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This summary facilitates translation and communication of concepts of cumulative effects on marine ecosystems, and how they can be managed w…

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Using the Seafloor Disturbance Model to understand the dynamics of seafloor disturbance and recovery
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This summary showcases the seafloor model of disturbance and recovery dynamics which can be used to explore the implications of changes in t…

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Coastal ecosystem management: Managing multiple stressors by considering network interactions
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This summary suggests a series of questions which will enable environmental managers and scientists to understand the potential for unexpect…

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Innovation in the blue economy
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Designing law and policy for the health and resilience of marine and coastal ecosystems
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This is a summary of research findings into options for policy and legislative change to enable ecosystem-based management across scales in …

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Blue Economy Principles for Aotearoa New Zealand
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This summary provides guidance on what the blue economy principles mean in practice to inform implementation (June 2023)

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Users of Sustainable Seas research for ecosystem-based management
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This summary provides insight into the potential users of our research into ecosystem-based management. Schwarz AM, Flowers G & Hewitt J (Ju…

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Learning from innovative governance examples to enhance EBM practices
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This is a summary of our research into environmental governance arrangements in Aotearoa New Zealand to identify enabling conditions (or pou…

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Cumulative effects erode resilience in coastal ecosystems
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This summary gives the main points of three articles published between 2021 and 2023, which highlight how cumulative effects can induce an o…

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Conference research posters
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The below posters were presented at our 2023 conference, Te Au o Te Moana.

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Reclaiming indigenous knowledge for marine management
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This impact case study describes incorporating mātauranga Māori into marine management strategies to improve coastal indicators (August 2022…

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Influencing environmental policy
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This impact case study describes how research into ecosystem-based management is helping to shape environmental legislation (August 2022)

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Understanding multi species finfish complexes in Tasman and Golden Bay: Process overview and key insights
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This is a summary of the processes behind and key insights from research into understanding multi species finfish complexes. (November 2022)

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System dynamic mapping and managing multi-species complexes: Key variables and linkages
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This is a summary of research to determine whether system dynamic mapping is a useful exercise for FNZ management purposes, including whethe…

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Co-developing an agent-based model to support ecosystem-based management decision-making
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This is a summary of the agent-based modelling (ABM) component of research into its potential for informing ecosystem-based management in fi…

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Characterising the regulatory seascape in Aotearoa New Zealand: Implications for policy and practice
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This is a summary of research into existing legal and policy mechanisms that support implementing EBM at the regional and local scale, publi…

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